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AIM virus: how do i look

Postby Linksquest » Sun Sep 25, 2005 9:08 am

Ok... i was on AIM the other day... and one of my friends was incessently saying " how do i look" and then there was a hyperlink to click that would lead to a page. The site looked suspicious, but stupidly i clicked the link anyways. My virus scanner detected a virus. My friend had no idea she was sending those mssges " how do i look" im not sure if this is an old or new virus... but I immediatley logged off AIM to prevent sending viruses to the rest of the people on my budd list.

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Postby Locke » Sun Sep 25, 2005 10:27 am

Hee hee, I actually clicked it but Firefox saved me when It tried to download.

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Postby Mr. SmartyPants » Sun Sep 25, 2005 11:27 am

... you do know aim viruses dont work with trillian....

and why are you so gullbile to click those? check the file extension of the url next time as well
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Postby Locke » Sun Sep 25, 2005 11:29 am

That was before Trillian's time....sadly.

Let's just say I like learning things the hard way.
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Postby Slater » Sun Sep 25, 2005 12:57 pm

I don't get it. I hate Trillian and prefer AIM (hate AIM but not as much as Trillian), but never ever get these virus things via my IM services that everyone's claiming to be such a big problem...
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Postby ZiP » Sun Sep 25, 2005 1:10 pm

I've heard about the "how do I look" thing. Let's put it this way: .exe is not a picture extension folks. ;)
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